The world's great thinkers
Subtitle: ed. by Saxe Commins & Robert N. Linscott.
Contributors: Linscott, Robert Newton, 1886- joint ed.
Publisher: On the immortality of the Soul : Saint Augustine -- Treatise on divine government : Saint Thomas Aquinas -- From the Upanishads. Dialogue with death, Brahmana -- From the Bhagavadgita. The way to purity -- From the Surangama Sutra. The essence of mind -- From the Dhammapada. The twin verses, On earnestness, Thought, Flowers, The thousands, The way, The downward course, The Brahmana -- The foundations of the moral life : Baruch Spinoza -- Pensées : Blaise Pascal -- A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge (chapters I to VIII) : George Berkeley -- An enquiry concerning human understanding : David Hume -- From critique of pure reason: Immanuel Kant -- The world as idea : Arthur Schopenhauer -- The religious mood : Friedrich Nietzsche -- The natural history of morals : Friedrich Nietzsche -- Philosophy. From the varieties of religious experience: William James -- Random House
Published: 1947
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Philosophy
Table of contents: title: [1] Man and spirit: the speculative philosophers. On the immortality of the Soul : Saint Augustine -- Treatise on divine government : Saint Thomas Aquinas -- From the Upanishads. Dialogue with death, Brahmana -- From the Bhagavadgita. The way to purity -- From the Surangama Sutra. The essence of mind -- From the Dhammapada. The twin verses, On earnestness, Thought, Flowers, The thousands, The way, The downward course, The Brahmana -- The foundations of the moral life : Baruch Spinoza -- Pensées : Blaise Pascal -- A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge (chapters I to VIII) : George Berkeley -- An enquiry concerning human understanding : David Hume -- From critique of pure reason: Immanuel Kant -- The world as idea : Arthur Schopenhauer -- The religious mood : Friedrich Nietzsche -- The natural history of morals : Friedrich Nietzsche -- Philosophy. From the varieties of religious experience: William James --
pagenum: |; label: [2] Man and man: the social philosophers.
title: Nichomachean ethics. (Books I to V) : Aristotle -- The Republic. Book II, Book VI : Plato -- Apology : Plato -- Crtito : Plato -- Principal doctrines : Epicurus -- Fragments : Epicurus -- The manual : Epictetus -- Meditations. (Books I to V) : Marcus Aurelius -- The wisdom of Confucius : Confucius -- The profit of one man is the loss of another : Michael De Montaigne -- On moderation: Michael De Montaigne -- Of bad means employed to a good end : Michael De Montaigne -- Cowardice, the mother of cruelty : Michael De Montaigne -- Self-reliance : Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The over-soul : Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Compensation : Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Morals and conduct : John Dewey --; title: [3] Man and the state: the political philosophers.; title: [4] Man and the universe: the philosophers of science.
pagenum: On the nature of things (Book V) : Lucretius -- On the revolutions of the celestial spheres : Nicholas Copernicus -- Novum organum (Book I) : Francis Bacon -- Discourse on method : René Descartes -- The positive philosophy : Auguste Comte -- Recapitulation and conclusion (From The Origin of Species) : Charles Darwin -- The evolution of life (From Creative Evolution) : Henri Bergson -- The method of dream-interpretation : Sigmund Freud -- The dream as wish-fulfillment : Sigmund Freud -- Science and philosophy : Alfred North Whitehead -- Some problems of philosophy : Sir James Jeans -- Reality, causation, science and mysticism : Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington -- The problems of space, ether and the field in physics : Albert Einstein.